. Eight journeys abroad. KARNAK necessary to use ones imagination. The sacred lake is now adirty pond, but one can see the remains of walls and columnsand broken statues, which in ancient times were all about thelake and the avenues of sphinxes, 500 on each side, from thetemple to the Nile and another at right angles with anothersort of sphinxes with rams heads. Where they intersectwere four obelisks, one has fallen and they are trying to raiseit. All this was buried deep in rubbish and one wonders howsuch enormous columns and walls were ever overthrown. All the Cooks people were away at the t
. Eight journeys abroad. KARNAK necessary to use ones imagination. The sacred lake is now adirty pond, but one can see the remains of walls and columnsand broken statues, which in ancient times were all about thelake and the avenues of sphinxes, 500 on each side, from thetemple to the Nile and another at right angles with anothersort of sphinxes with rams heads. Where they intersectwere four obelisks, one has fallen and they are trying to raiseit. All this was buried deep in rubbish and one wonders howsuch enormous columns and walls were ever overthrown. All the Cooks people were away at the tombs of the Kings 492 CONSTANTINOPLE, THE HOLY LAND AND EGYPT. 493 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD at Thebes, so I took a good nap after lunch and then we wentto the Temple of Luxor, very near the Hotel, and also nearthe Nile, This has also been excavated and a Mosque stillremains, built over one side. The English consul had a houseon top of one of the pylons, now they are going to clear awaythe native huts and move the mosque so the rubbish will not
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